New Climategate Emails Spark Science Fraud Firestorm

COMMENTARY | A newly released batch of 5,000 emails from among climate scientists who have supported the doctrine of man-made global warming have started a firestorm that threatens to dwarf the original climategate controversy of two years ago.

According to a story in Forbes, climate scientists are seeking to conceal data and procedures related to climate change. This is because they know that the scientific evidence for man-made global warming is weak, but that they regard climate science more as a political cause than a rational area of scientific study.

In short, the entire notion of man caused global warming is scientific fraud on an epic scale.

Amazingly, according to the UK Telegraph, the reaction of the climate scientists involved, who have been caught red handed, is to deny everything. The emails, which show efforts to destroy or conceal data that casts doubt on the doctrine of man-made global warming, have been taken out of context, they claim. In any case, the emails do not cast doubt on the science, it is suggested.

Newsbusters relates some of the more juicy emails. In one, a climate scientist named Phil Jones states that the work supporting the idea of man-made global warming has been done on the back of research grants, some of which has been given by the US Department of Energy. This is a reason for the data to be concealed and apparently the DOE was fine with it.

The revelation of more evidence of fraud surrounding climate science has some political implications. The Obama administration is basing its environmental regulations on the doctrine of global warming that the current 5,000 emails, as well as those released in 2009, have revealed to be dubious at best, fraudulent at worse. The question therefore arises that given these latest regulations, with the Obama administration adjust its environmental strategy?

Experience suggests that it will not, because the science has never been the issue. Global warming has been used an excuse to clamp down more and more government control over the way energy in produced and the way industry is run. That the science does not support such a policy is immaterial.

Source: Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock The Global Warming Debate, James Taylor, Forbes, Nov 23, 2011

Climategate 2? More UEA hacked emails, Louise Grey, UK Telegraph, Nov 23, 2011

ClimateGate 2.0: 5,000 New Emails Confirm Pattern of Deception and Collusion by Alarmists, Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters, Nov 22, 2011